duteous

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Exception 3.—Final y is sometimes changed into e: as, duty + ous = duteous; beauty + ous = beauteous.

From New Word-Analysis by William Swinton

There forests, lawns, and haunts of beasts abound, There youth is temperate, and laborious found; There altars and the righteous gods are fear'd, And aged sires by duteous sons rever'd.

From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by Haines, T. L. (Thomas Louis)

And, now that I think o' th' lass, comrade, I am not so sure that a scolding wife is not well paid for by a duteous daughter.

From A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales by Rives, Amélie

Nine and twenty yeomen tall Waited duteous on them all.

From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various

Her joyful parents now At Brahmá's feet in duteous reverence bow.

From The Birth of the War-God A Poem by Kalidasa by Kalidasa